The Prohibition era in America, which lasted for well over a decade and—inconceivable as it might be today—effectively banned the sale and production of booze in the United States, ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on Dec. 5, 1933.

Topic: beach

With the summer edging ever closer, the Museum of the City of New York is putting on an exhibition of 70 — count them — previously unseen images of 1960s Coney Island by renowned New York photographer Aaron Rose.